NYC has the toughest gun laws on the books, right?
Wrong. The laws are only tough on the law abiding but quite lenient for the criminal.
Can't legally carry a gun in NYC if you're an honest citizen because in liberal towns honest citizens are way in the back of the bus when it comes to protection.
Can't send a gun trafficker to prison if he has less than 20, count 'em, 20 illegal guns for sale. 19 is a misdemeanor. Same as first time shoplifting. Get caught selling 19 guns and get a heavy fine with a suspended sentence. After probation, get caught with another 19 and it isn't a cumulative offense but back to square one. Just another misdemeanor charge, a fine, and a suspended sentence.
Why? Because the vast majority of gun dealers are minorities...take it from a hometown boy that knows...and slapping heavy penalties on minorities is a no-no. The Jews, Irish, and the Italians were all part of what would become organized crime in NYC, and if your name has a vowel at the end, a Mc at the beginning, or even if you like saying "oy" a lot you're slapped with racketeering charges if caught with ANY number of illegal handguns. The way around a heavy sentence is to have the "minorities" handle the actual buying and selling of illegal guns because they won't get a third of the time for twice the crime. Same with street drugs and pretty much anything that would send a "majority" criminal to Sing Sing for 10-20.
Is it as bad in that other bastion of lunacy? Don't know for sure because I didn't grow up on the streets of LA, but from what I have seen, you can kill 4 innocent people and Hollywood will rush to your defense because you were misunderstoond and underprivleged.
Right, Tookie?
Read all about it...or all that the Post will tell you:
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